Archive: 2011

April 2, 2011 - T.J. Griffin earned second prize at the 2011 Rising Eyes of Texas: an annual exhibition for undergraduate and graduate students emerging in the visual arts.

April 1, 2011 - The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies has moved into a new home on the UT Dallas campus. Its new suite, on the fourth floor of the Jonsson Academic Center, hosts a media room, computer lab and lending library, which is “always full of students studying,” according to Pfister. On Sunday, April 3, at 4 p.m., the […]

March 10, 2011 - Akin Babatunde will be playing “Doug” in “Dividing the Estate,” March 11 – April 9 at the Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre (2400 Flora Street, Dallas). The play is part of the Horton Foote Festival. A hit on Broadway last year, “Dividing the Estate” is a clear-eyed, witty portrayal of a family slow to surrender its […]

March 2, 2011 - The University of Texas at Dallas has been included in The Princeton Review‘s list of the “Top Schools for Video Game Design Study for 2011,” based on a survey of administrators at 150 schools offering video game design programs or degrees. UT Dallas made the list of top 10 graduate programs for its innovative Arts and […]

February 28, 2011 - As The University of Texas at Dallas prepares to host visiting young guitarists at the 10th Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival on March 4-5, one of the University’s own guitar students is earning accolades as well. UT Dallas guitar graduate student and lecturer Eddie Healy recently had “Reflections” published (Joachim-Trekel, Hamburg). The work is a series […]

February 25, 2011 - What does black culture have to do with architecture? In “The Black Architecture Project,” a new exhibition at CentralTrak, architectural theorist and designer Darell W. Fields has set out to find some answers. “Architecture is inherently social,” says Fields, a lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas and an artist in residence at the University’s […]

February 24, 2011 - Author Rebecca Skloot will visit The University of Texas at Dallas on Wednesday, March 2, to discuss her best-selling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The lecture, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the UT Dallas Conference Center, is being offered by the University’s Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology in partnership with Arts & Letters Live, […]

February 22, 2011 - The North Dallas Gazette, Tues., Feb. 22 by Rick A. Elina: “… Mr. North, a black character capably played by white actor, Jonathon Horne, has been named head of the Morris Foundation. From the first moment that Mr. North enters, he does so with strides so purposeful, there is little doubt that the new guard […]

February 22, 2011 - Mark Winegardner, who was hand-picked to write two sequels to Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and has published a number of other novels and short stories, will give a reading of new short fiction on Feb. 23 at The University of Texas at Dallas. The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session on topics including fiction, writing, video […]

February 17, 2011 - Social media didn’t lead to the recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, but this new system of communication certainly played a role in the process of the revolt. Dr. David Parry, assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas, argues that an Internet-equipped public is substantially different from a non-Internet-enabled […]